The Naked Spur Page #5

I'm talking to you now.

Be like stepping

on a grave.

You know what

i'm asking you?

I... can't say

how i feel,

the way things are.

All right. Get up!

Come on! Come on!

Get up!

Come on.

We're through

fooling with you.

Quit that!

"Dead or alive"

it says!

Stop him!

Ben won't have a chance!

A chance at what...

to kill us all?

If that's what you want,

i'll give him a chance.

Now, cut him loose.

Don't let him

do it.

Cut him loose!

All right, ben.

It ain't

a fair fight, howie.

My hands ain't fit.

You're ready now.

Anytime.

Come on, draw.

I ain't got a prayer

against you,

and you know it.

It's your first move.

If you're going to

murder me, howie,

don't try

to make it look

like something else.

Come on, draw.

Kill him!

All right.

Ohh!

Leave it be!

It's getting so

i don't know which way

to point this no more.

How many chances

does he get?

Is this part of

your deal with her?

I didn't...

you didn't keep me busy

while he was making his break?

Nah, it just

happened that way.

It just happened

that way.

This is no good.

Any more shortcuts?

[Jesse]

There's no sense stewin' about it.

We got here late,

and that's it.

That's the time you cost us!

If you'd listened to me...

i'll listen to

you now if you got any ideas

about how to

get across here.

You can't

get across that.

You got to go

downstream a ways.

How far?

Oh, four or five days,

if we make time.

We can swim this,

so let's start now!

I'll take the point

if you're afraid.

Least i got the sense

to be afraid.

Besides,

what about her?

She wouldn't

last two minutes in that current.

You want to go downstream?

Take her with you.

What if ben gets

washed away?

Then we got nothing.

I bow to your

superior wisdom.

I promise you, jesse,

he'll get across.

One way

or the other.

Hey! Wait a minute!

I'll try the river,

but not like this.

Yes, like this!

Why not?

We'll go downstream

before we cross.

What are you

worried about? Your girl?

Don't tell me you're

worried about him!

Why? It's

no different from the rope in abilene.

You knew you were

gonna bring him back to die

when you started

after him. You know that now.

That hasn't changed.

He's not a man.

He's a sack

of money.

That's why

we're all here... especially you!

Why don't you

face up to it!

I don't suppose either of you object

to stopping the night here.

Yeah, i didn't think so.

L-i...

hey, lina, honey.

It's my back again.

Can you do me?

Let me do you this time.

Start fixing for a fire, girlie.

How do you

like your rubbin'?

Up and down

or side to side?

Hey! You don't

have to do that.

Better look

after your partners.

Partners, uhh.

If i didn't need

a grubstake,

i'd have walked out

on this deal long ago.

It's too bad.

If you'd been lucky

like my friend...

and i've had about

enough of that, too.

You got no friend

found gold around here.

You're talking

about yourself!

I knowed i shouldn't

have shot off my mouth in front of you.

Quit playacting.

You wanted me to

know it all along,

so let's get at it.

You tell me

where to dig,

and i'll see

that your gal is provided for.

Don't try to

horse-trade me, jesse.

I ain't gonna tell

where my gold is, but i'll show you.

I knew that's what

you've been scratchin' for all along.

Trouble is,

i don't trust you

no more

than i trust them.

You don't

have to trust nobody.

Even if you don't

fancy my gold mine,

you still got me

all to yourself.

That's sayin'

i trust you.

Say i tell you

where my gold is,

you might still

turn me in.

If i make a deal,

i stick by it.

Least i wouldn't

have any partners

to worry about.

'Cept me.

What do you mean, you?

If i did it...

now, just if...

it would be

an even swap.

You'd go loose,

i'd get the gold mine.

That ain't fair,

jesse.

I got a right to

some of that gold.

Fair or no,

it's the only deal i'd make...

and it's a poor deal,

no matter.

Same deal.

I'll trade you even up.

Your neck

for that gold.

Yes or no?

I ain't fixed for

bargaining, jesse.

You know that.

Come on, then.

I got two horses ready.

I'll get lina.

No. She ain't part

of the deal.

She goes with me.

If i'm gonna be

broke,

i ain't gonna be

lonesome.

Get her up, then.

Remember,

i'm watching you.

Shh.

Shh.

I'll tell you later.

Come on.

Snake!

Snake!

Where? Where?

Whoa! Ben, hey!

[Horse whinnies]

Fun's over.

Get down off that horse.

I said off!

Come on! Move!

You all right,

honey?

You got the gun.

What do you care?

You're all right.

Get movin'.

I got it comin'.

Do business

with the devil,

and you'll get it

every time.

Ain't it the truth?

Get goin'!

Lina, honey,

you take the horse.

Hold it, jesse.

You better

get goin', ben.

The other two

will be along any minute.

You mean!! We

better get goin', don't you, honey?

If it suits you,

i'll settle for goin'.

I don't fancy

a friend with a gun in his hand.

Course,

i don't suppose

ben would be

fool enough to shoot it.

Be heard

20 mile or more.

Who's talking

about shooting?

Leave him with

the burro, ben.

You don't need him.

Please!

I'm just thinking

that...

from up there,

a man could pick off

anything that moved

in this clearing.

The only trouble is,

there's nothing to

stop a man,

make him hold up

for a while.

Ben, i got to talk

a different way now, i know that,

but that gold mine

still ain't gonna do you much good.

I'm thinkin'...

thinkin's your

weak spot, jesse.

Here, lina.

Hold the horses.

Leave the burro.

Ben!

Ben! No!

You had no reason

to kill him.

He couldn't

hurt you none.

Leave him lay

like that.

They'll come

after you sure now.

That shot'll bring them,

and they'll finish you.

I figured they'll come.

Now, get those horses on

the other side of that rock...

come on, do as i say

before i have to knock some sense into you!

[Gunshots]

Up here!

Get down.

Better not

move around

too much

up here.

Come on.

You, too.

I swear, he ain't

half as worried over it

as you are.

Look at him.

Lyin' there,

peaceful in the sun.

Ain't never gonna be

hungry again,

never want anything

he can't have.

That's more

than we can say.

Oh!

Hold still.

Hold still!

You're gonna be

still from now on.

I ain't been

harder on you

'cause i know

you never seen a man killed close up.

Well, that'll pass.

Day after tomorrow,

it'll be just like

a story you once heard.

You killed that man in

abilene, like kemp said!

Just another gun i'll

never have to look into, you understand?

Pretty soon roy

and your friend howie

are gonna show up,

then i'll get me

some more insurance

against dying young.

Ben, we can get away...

california.

We can go there.

You always said you'd

take me to california.

Might go

to california.

Kemp didn't kill you.

When he had the chance. You got to remember that!

I remember

what suits me.

If you forget this,

i won't ever do anything you don't want,

i promise. I won't talk,

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